Iquitos
Iquitos is a city of 380,000 people in the Amazonas region of Peru. For travellers, Iquitos offers a vast selection of activities not found elsewhere in Peru, such as Amazon boat rides and great wildlife viewing.
- Type: City with 466,000 residents
- Description: city of Peru, capital of Loreto region
- Also known as: “Capital de la amazonía peruana”, “Capital of the peruvian amazon”, “El paraíso de la selva amazónica”, “Ikitas”, “Ikitu”, “La sucursal del cielo”, “La venecia peruana del amazonas”, “San Pablo de Nueva Napeanos”, “The branch of heaven”, “The paradise of the amazon jungle”, “The peruvian venice of the amazon”, and “イキートス”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Casa de Fierro and Estadio Max Augustín.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Punchana.
Iquitos
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Iquitos, Maynas Province, Loreto, Peruvian Amazon, Peru, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-3.7494° or 3° 44′ 58″ south
Longitude
-73.2444° or 73° 14′ 40″ west
Population
466,000
Elevation
107 metres (351 feet)
IATA airport code
IQT
UN/LOCODE
PE IQT
Open location code
67887Q24+76
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Iquitos” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Iquitos”
- Akan: “Iquitos”
- Amharic: “ኢኪቶስ”
- Arabic: “إكيتوس”
- Aragonese: “Iquitos”
- Armenian: “Իկիտոս”
- Asturian: “Iquitos”
- Aymara: “Iquitos”
- Azerbaijani: “İkitos”
- Basque: “Iquitos”
- Belarusian: “Ікітас”
- Bengali: “ইকিটোস”
- Bengali: “ইকিতোস”
- Breton: “Iquitos”
- Catalan: “Iquitos”
- Cebuano: “Iquitos (kapital sa rehiyon)”
- Cebuano: “Iquitos”
- Chinese: “伊基托斯”
- Czech: “Iquitos”
- Danish: “Iquitos”
- Dutch: “Iquitos”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اكيتوس”
- Esperanto: “Iquitos”
- Estonian: “Iquitos”
- Finnish: “Iquitos”
- French: “Iquitos”
- Galician: “Iquitos”
- Georgian: “იკიტოსი”
- German: “Iquitos”
- Greek: “Ικίτος”
- Guarani: “Iquitos”
- Gujarati: “ઈક્યૂટોસ”
- Hausa: “Iquitos”
- Hebrew: “איקיטוס”
- Hindi: “इकिटोस”
- Hindi: “इकितोस”
- Hungarian: “Iquitos”
- Indonesian: “Iquitos”
- Irish: “Iquitos”
- Italian: “Iquitos”
- Japanese: “イキトス”
- Javanese: “Iquitos”
- Kannada: “ಇಕ್ವಾಟಾಸ್”
- Kazakh: “Икитос”
- Kirghiz: “Икитос”
- Korean: “이키토스”
- Latin: “Iquitum”
- Latin: “Urbs Iquitorum”
- Latvian: “Ikitosa”
- Lithuanian: “Ikitosas”
- Macedonian: “Икитос”
- Malay: “Iquitos”
- Marathi: “इक्यूटोस”
- Moksha: “Икитос”
- Nauru: “Iquitos”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Iquitos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Iquitos”
- Norwegian: “Iquitos”
- Oromo: “Iquitos”
- Ossetian: “Икитос”
- Panjabi: “ਇਕਿਟੋਸ”
- Persian: “ایکیتوس”
- Polish: “Iquitos”
- Portuguese: “Iquitos”
- Pushto: “اکيتوس”
- Quechua: “Ikitus”
- Romanian: “Iquitos”
- Russian: “Икитос”
- Scots: “Iquitos”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Iquitos”
- Sinhala: “ඉක්විටෝස්, පේරු”
- Sinhala: “ඉක්විටෝස්”
- Slovak: “Iquitos”
- Slovenian: “Iquitos”
- Somali: “Iquitos”
- Spanish: “Iquitos”
- Swahili: “Iquitos”
- Swedish: “Iquitos”
- Tajik: “Икитос”
- Tamil: “ஐகியூடோஸ்”
- Tatar: “Икитос”
- Telugu: “ఇక్విటోస్”
- Thai: “อิกิโตส”
- Thai: “อีกีโตส”
- Turkish: “Iquitos”
- Ukrainian: “Ікітос”
- Urdu: “اکیتوس”
- Uzbek: “Ikitos”
- Venetian: “Iquitos”
- Vietnamese: “Iquitos”
- Volapük: “Iquitos”
- Waray (Philippines): “Iquitos”
- Welsh: “Iquitos”
- Wu Chinese: “伊基托斯”
- “Iquitos”
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